My birthday is May 6, 1982.
Other things that have happened on May 6:
events -- 1527 - Spanish and German troops sack Rome; some consider this the end of the Renaissance.
- 1536 - King Henry VIII orders Bible be placed in every church.
- 1682 - Louis XIV of France moves his court to Versailles.
- 1937 - Hindenburg disaster: The German zeppelin Hindenburg catches fire and is destroyed within a minute while attempting to dock at Lakehurst, New Jersey. Thirty-six people are killed.
births -- 1397 - King Sejong the Great, inventor of the Korean alphabet (d. 1450)
- 1758 - Maximilien Robespierre, French Revolutionary (d. 1794)
- 1856 - Sigmund Freud, Austrian psychiatrist (d. 1939)
- 1915 - Orson Welles, American director (d. 1985)
- 1931 - Willie Mays, baseball player
- 1937 - Rubin 'Hurricane' Carter, American boxer
- 1945 - Bob Seger, American singer
- 1953 - Tony Blair, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
- 1961 - George Clooney, American actor
deaths -- 1862 - Henry David Thoreau, American author and philosopher (b. 1817)
- 1910 - King Edward VII of the United Kingdom (b. 1841)
- 1992 - Marlene Dietrich, German actress (b. 1901)
- 1995 - Maria Pia de Saxe-Coburg-Gotha-Braganca (b. 1907)
- 2002 - Pim Fortuyn, Dutch politician (assassinated) (b. 1948)
All of this stolen from
Wikipedia's wonderful calendar feature.